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the measurement of intelligence, personality and other mental processes

PSYCHOMETRICS

the practice of encouraging supposedly superior people to reproduce, whil discouraging or even preventing from oing so those judged to be inferior.

EUGENICS

a test designed to predict a person's capacity for learning

APTITUDE TEST

a test designed to asses what a person has learned

ACHIEVEMENT TEST

the widely used American reevision of the original French Binet-Simon intelligence test

STANDFORD-BINET INTELLIGENCE

originally the ratio of mental age to chronological age ultiplied by 100 (MA/CA x 100(. Today, ,IQ is calculated by comparing how a person's performance deviates from the average score of her or his same - age peers, which is 100.

INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT (IQ)

the most widely used set of intelligence tests, containing both verbal and performance (nonverbal) subscales.

WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALES

the process of establishing uniform procedure for administrating a test and for interpreting its scores

STANDARIZATION

the bell-shaped appearance of a distribuion that results when the mean, median and mode are identical in value

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION

the tendency for people's performance on IQ tests to improve from one generation to te next

FLYNN EFFECT

the degree to which a test yields consistent results

RELIABILITY

the degree to which a test measures what it is designed to measure

VALIDITY

the degree to which the items on a test are related to the characteristic the test supposedly measures

CONTENT VALIDITY

the degree to which a test predicts other observable behavior related to the characteristic the test supposedly measures

PREDICTIVE VALIDITY

a statistical technique that allows researchrs to identify clusters of variables or test items that correlate with one another.

FACTOR ANALYSIS

an intelligence factor that spearman and other researchers believed underlies all mental abilities

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE FACTOR (G-FACTOR)

the ability to aquire knowldge through experience and to use that knowledge to solve familiar problems

CRYSTALIZED INTELLIGENCE

the ability to understand the relationships between things in the abesence of past experiencecs and the mental capacity to develop strategies for dealing with new kinds of problems

FLUID INTELLIGENCE

gardner's theory contends that there are at least eight distinct and relatively independent intelligences, all of which are differently dveloped in each of us.

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE

individuals who asily master skills in a particular intelletual area

PRODIGIES

mntally retardd individuals who demonstrate exceptional ability in one specific intellectual area

SAVANTS

Sternberg's theory tat three sets of mental abilities make up human intelligence: analytic, creative and practical

TRIACHIC THEORY OF INTELLIGENCE

the ability to recognize and regulate our own and others' emotions

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

A diagnostic category used for people who not only hav an IQ score below 70 but also have difficulty adapting to the routine demands of independent living

MENTAL RETARDATION

a form of mental retardation caused by an extra chromosome in an individual's genetic makeup

DOWN SYNDROME

a statistical cofficient ranging from 0 to 1, that estimates the degree to which heredity determines intelligence whithin a particular human group

HERITABILITY COEFFICIENT

the extent to which genetically determined limites on IQ may increase or decrease due to environmental factors

REACTION RANGE

the realization that your performance on some task might confirm a negative sterotype associated with your social group

STEROTYPE THREAT

the process by which someone's expectations about a person or group lead to the fufilliment of those expectations

SLEF-FUFLLING PROPHECY

the ability to produce novel, high-quality products or ideas

CREATIVITY

applying logic and conventional knowledge to arrive at a single solution to a problem

CONVERGENT THINKING

pursuing many different and often unconventional paths to generate many different solutions to a problem

DIVERGENT THINKING

ability to acommunicate through written or spoken words

LINGUISTIC INTELLIGENCE

ability to solve math problems and analyze arguments

LOGICAL=MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE

ability to perceive and arrange objects in the environmnt

SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE

when you see someone in need of help, how you feel emotionally. you must relieve your anxiety, do you help them or distancec yourself?

PERSONAL DISTRESS

high IQ scores have more complex brain patterns than low scores when responding to simple stimuli